[PULL REQUEST] GSoC Printing: part 5

[Miika Turkia]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 06:01:08PM +0300, Miika Turkia wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > - having the warning triangles but no way to see their text... I think
>> >   we should just not print the triangles. Opinions?
>>
>> In general, we should have proper icons on the profile that describe
>> what the warning/alarm is about. It would make it easier to look at
>> the profile on the desktop application, and I think it is essential on
>> the printout (if we are to include the warnings on the printed
>> profile). I have to admit that I did not yet look into this work, but
>> my gut feeling is that printout with only the warning triangles gives
>> more questions than it answers - so I would not print them at this
>> point, only after we have describing icons for the events.
>
> I agree.
> I would love to have more descriptive icons. But I will be the first to
> admit that my design skills are limited (but I am quite proud of my
> Subsurface mobile icon - so there, I said it).

I like the mobile icon as well, it reminds me of ... me :D Looks like a
personalized divelog app on my tablet :D

> If we have someone who can draw scalable strong icons that are able to
> capture some of the more common warnings better, go ahead. But here's my
> question... what's the icon for "safety stop violation" or "remaining gas
> time warning" or "ascend speed violation"?


​
And now that I have shown my talent with icon design, I am sure no-one
wants to see the last icon :D

miika
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